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Making waves

Landon Armstrong makes waves in the first-ever Bluffton Swim Club home meet, held at the Putnam County YMCA in late January. Armstrong is a freshman at Bluffton High School. (Jamie Nygaard photo)

Sign-up underway for Feb. 29 BFR coed softball tourney

Don't forget the pickelball tournament Feb. 16

The next Bluffton Family Recreation off the wall coed softball tournament is Saturday, Feb. 29. It is for four men and two women per team. Registration deadline is one week before each tournament.

A Sunday, Feb. 16, pickleball tournament is also on the calendar. It has the following divisions:
• Men's and women's singles
• Men's and women's doubles
• Mixed doubles
Deadline to register is Sunday, Feb. 9.

Free community meals at the Senior Center

Feb. 6 & Feb. 20 at 6 p.m.

Two community meals are planned for February at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, 132 N. Main St.

The meals are:

• Thursday, Feb. 6, provided by Bluffton Lions Club

• Thursday, Feb. 20, provided by Bluffton Presbyterian Church

Meals are at 6 p.m. and are free and open to the public. Donations to the Bluffton food pantry are accepted.

Families welcome, and kids usually get served first.

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Icon's Oscars Contest now accepting entries

Deadline to enter is 6 p.m. Sunday

CLICK HERE to enter the Icon's Oscar Contest.

Just when you thought there were no more Icon contests, the Icon Oscar’s Contest is on the way.

The contest is now accepting entries. The contest includes multi-choice questions, so you can enter even if you don’t have a clue about this year’s movies.

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Bluffton professors to share Feb. 4 Colloquium

Dr. Melissa Friesen, art, communication and theatre department chair, and Dr. Walt Paquin, director of social work program, will share “Arts-based Civic Practice and Learning in Community,” during a Colloquium presentation at 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.

Beavers 2 Franklin 0

Men and women’s teams stop Grizzlys

The Bluffton University women's basketball team welcomed Franklin College to town on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020, for Alumni Day. The Beavers were able to hold off a tough Grizzly team, 66-56. Bluffton improved to 10-9 (4-8 HCAC) while Franklin slipped to 11-7 (7-5 HCAC).

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